Flying IFR? ForeFlight Mobile
Pro Is for YouForeFlight Mobile Pro for iPad is a must-have service for
instrument-rated pilots flying in IMC. The instrument procedures
organizer, the instrument procedure search, and the enhanced situational
awareness provided by ForeFlight's best-in-class TrueTaxi and TruePlates
geo-referenced airport diagrams and approach charts make each IFR flight
a joy.

U.S.
SPORT AVIATION EXPO: SALES STILL STRUGGLEAlthough there are
sales bright spots in the light sport aircraft segment, as the 2013 U.S.
Sport Aviation Expo opened in Sebring, Florida on Thursday, the industry
as a whole still isn't finding robust sales numbers. Nonetheless, Sport
Expo expects about 20,000 attendees at the Sebring show and it continues
to be an important venue for some manufacturers who've been able to
reliably mine sales leads from would-be customers who come to Florida
ready to kick the tires one last time before pulling the sales trigger.
More...

The Easy-to-Install IFD440
FMS/GPS/NAV/COM
As the newest member of Avidyne's integrated flight display
family, the IFD440 has been designed to be an easy-to-install,
plug-and-play replacement for legacy GNS430-series navigators. The
IFD440 provides powerful navigation, communication, and multi-function
display capabilities, and its easy-to-use, Hybrid Touch user interface
allows pilots to perform virtually all functions using dedicated
knobs/buttons or via the touchscreen interface. Now you have a choice.
And the choice is easy.

VIDEO:
LEVIL TECHNOLOGY'S NEW ADS-B/AHRSThe competition in
the iPad remote ADS-B and AHRS market is getting white-hot, and now
comes Levil Technology with a new device called the iLevil. AVweb
took a took at it at the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo show in Sebring.
More...

A pilot who had twice extensively
damaged airplanes by flying into thunderstorms tries it a third time.
This time he doesn't live to tell about his own
foolishness.

Remember back to when we were student pilots,
with maybe 20 hours under our belts? We all asked our instructors "How
many hours do you have?" Even if the answer came back as "400," we were
in awe because our instructor had 20 times our experience.

Of
course he was a great pilot; he had all those hours. Later, after
earning our private certificates perhaps we met a pilot with 1000 hours,
and then someone with even more flight time and a fancy airplane came
into our aviation life. If we were sharp enough, we soon realized that
hours in a logbook or the type of aircraft being flown can't hold a
candle to a difficult to pin down concept known as judgment. Judgment we
learned is the real core of what makes someone a good pilot.

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